“But Daddy! I want an Oompa Lumpa Supercomputer NOW!…”

Does a super computer that is 250 times faster than your desktop sound appealing - I mean, assuming it was the size of a desktop and under $10,000?  It does to me, and now it is available. 

NVIDIA Tesla Personal Supercomputer uses parallel computing architecture and powered by up to 960 parallel processing cores to give you a supercomputer on your desk…

When a technology like this breaks the $10k mark, it is not long before it breaks the $1,000 mark, and that’s when things start to get interesting.  And we will need it, with virtual reality and hyper-bandwidth connections…

Anyway, thought you might like to know…

Hmmm, I wonder how the unlimited availability of cheap, huge, perfect diamonds will change the engagement rituals…

Artificial diamonds - now available in extra large - environment - 13 November 2008 - New Scientist

“The most exciting aspect of this new annealing process is the unlimited size of the crystals that can be treated. The breakthrough will allow us to push to kilocarat diamonds of high optical quality,”

CNN created a Star Wars type hologram for the election, but this is an order of magnituede more impressive.  3 dimensional imagery is here - now, let’s see how long it takes them to make it affordable for the serious consumer…

3D Display Offers Glimpse of Future Media

Some people eat more, eat more fat, eat more often than others, and exercise less, yet still remain thin and healthy.  How?  Metabolism.  Their body processes the food differently.

When I was studying biopsychology in college, experimenters discovered that the amount of Brown Adipose Tissue (BAT) that someone had, multiplied by how active it was, was directly related to how many calories the body burned in metabolism.  Back in 1990, they were testing drugs that stimulated the BAT cells in mice, turning morbidly obese mice (yes, they exist) thin without changing their diet or exercise. They were testing it on humans, but the side effects were so intense it was dangerous, so it never made it to market.

Now, genetic research has found a new compound that does all of that and more.

The Healthy Skinny Pill: European scientists have found that mice fed a high-fat, high-calorie diet and prevented from exercising regularly can be protected from weight gain and metabolic disorders when given a drug that targets a gene linked to longevity. The treatment even increases the animals’ running endurance.

If it works in humans without negative side-effects, we are looking at a very interesting door opening into a whole series of Designer Metabolism drugs that will revolutionize the health care field.  Again, keep your balance, and let’s surf this asymptotic spiral of development with artistry and grace!

Mark

Just a heads up.  The have found a way to create essentially transparent sheets of nanotubes that can be stretched over objects and act as speakers, playing music etc.  Wow. 

Watch a video of a carbon nanotube speaker being stretched

When fully stretched, the sheets are transparent and so they could
be attached to the front of an LCD screen to replace standard speakers.

Hot nanotube sheets produce music on demand

Shoushan Fan and his research team at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, working with colleagues at Beijing Normal University, created a thin sheet by roughly aligning many 10-nanometer-diameter carbon nanotubes. When they sent an audio frequency current through the sheet, they discovered it acted as a loudspeaker.

In the book Atlas Shrugged, industrialist Hank Rearden invented a new type of steel called, strangely enough, Rearden Metal, that was twice as strong as steel but half as light, sparking a manufacturing revolution.

Now, carbon nanotube technology promises to do Hank an order of magnitude better, creating a composite material 250  times stronger and 10 times lighter than steel, that conducts electricity like copper or silicon and disperses heat like steel or brass.‘Buckypaper’: stronger than steel, harder than diamonds.

They call it BuckyPaper because it is made of buckytubes, or carbon nanotubes  stacked together in sheets.  The new discovery and creation of carbon nano-tech are named after Buckminster Fuller whose geodesic domes are structured similarly to the 60 atom carbon nano-spheres that sparked off the nano-revolution. 

Imagine the possible applications…cars, planes, architecture, weaponry/armor, tools, computers, electrical wiring…not to mention furniture, clothing…etc.

Oh yeah, don’t forget the carbon nanotube 14″ color screen that Samsung just created that is brighter, lighter, and FLEXIBLE… Samsung Demonstrates First Color Carbon Nanotube-Based Electrophoretic Display.

What a wild and glorious time to be alive!

Ecstatic Effectiveness to you!

Mark

The science of gene mapping has produced another intriguing step forward, as Researchers discover a gene that regulates and blocks ovulation.

To reach their conclusions, the research team developed a new type of genetically modified mouse whose Lrh1 gene was selectively blocked in the ovary. They found that deletion of the Lrh1 gene effectively stopped ovulation.

This type of understanding holds the promise of a birth control therapy that selectively shuts down that gene, rather than shifting the hormonal system of a woman. With precision like this becoming a standard for medicine, Aubrey De Grey’s ideas (go here) sound more and more reasonable…

Brain research is discovering the darndest things lately, one of the most interesting of which involve mirror neurons. Mirror neurons are brain cells that fire both when you do something and when you watch someone else do the same thing.

It seems that the more active your mirror neurons are, the more readily you can identify the emotions that other people are experiencing. In other words, the more the nerves in your brain involuntarily fire when you see someone else doing something, the more empathy you can experience.

Researchers at Monash University in Melbourne measured peoples mirror neuron activity around other people’s thumb/hand movement, and “found that the volunteers who were better at judging people’s emotions had higher mirror neuron activity.”

How the brain detects the emotions of others - being-human - 12 May 2008 - New Scientist

Next steps:
1) Study the DNA of people who have higher mirror neuron activity and look for genetic predispositions -
2) Then, genetically engineer people with more or less mirror neuron potential to be either flight attendents or soldiers.

Ahhh, what a brave new world we are entering!

The world, it is a changin’ my friends! Its time to focus our awareness on your deepest values (Meaning) and learn how to express them (Mission) profitably (Money) in the world!

When Accuquote insurance started sponsoring my show, I wanted to know who I was associating myself with, so I went to the page listed next to my show at http://AccuQuote.com/save. I mean, it seems pretty straightforward and all, Accurate Quotes on insurance, but ya never know.

Fortunately, the site is exactly what I thought and hoped it would be - a simple, fast method to bring technology to bear on the insurance market. It used to be that the way you got insurance was by the oh-so-exciting experience of talking to an insurance salesman from a particular company, or perhaps by getting lucky enough to have them initiate a sales call with you, perhaps sitting next to you on a suddenly even longer flight. That agent, in turn, had to be paid, which raised the cost of getting the insurance to you. Also, that agent could only speak with one person at a time, and had to do inconvenient things like sleep, which made setting appointments and travel etc. necessary.

http://AccuQuote.com/save allowed me to shop/compare all the major companies in under a minute, using drop down menus to customize my policy to my particular needs. No appointments, no salesmen with overly big smiles and overly firm handshakes, no worries. If you want to save a bit o’ cash or just make sure you aren’t paying too much, check it out.

GIGO - Genius In, Genius Out. When it comes to organizing group action, a common structure not only prevents mistakes, it allows people to tap into one another’s potential. The more intention and care each person on the team puts into storing their knowledge in a way that can be shared, the more synergy that team can demonstrate. It seems simple, but virtually no one practices it, mostly because it is just too difficult.

As an entrepenuer and businessperson, I can’t afford not to tap the powe of my team, or expose myself to the mistakes that come when the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing. So, I use collaborative systems to build shared reality about what my companies are up to. For example, I spent the last 2 weeks installing, learning, and customizing a salesforce.com implementation that cost about $4500. It is an investment I am happy to make - to leverage the power of my team.

However, if you don’t want to invest that, I might recommend a new service called Highrise. Highrise gives me much of the functionality I will use in salesforce for a slightly smaller sum! - It’s Free! I like it so much I want to plug it here.

The interface is clean and intuitive. I look forward to using it with

my finance - so we can make sure that we are working as a team, both leading up to the wedding and beyond!
other groups I take part in that are working to create a positive difference in the world.

We need to organize our resources and use each other’s action to inspire, motivate, and hold one another accountable. Highrise offers us a simple and powerful way to do that.

If you want to leverage the power of your teams, check out Highrise.

Mark Michael Lewis
http://MarkMichaelLewis.com